A text reading algorithm for natural images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-274

  González, Álvaro ^a   Bergasa, Luis Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Character segmentation; Natural images; Scene text detection; Text detection; Text recognition

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; NATURAL IMAGES; SCENE TEXT; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876064512     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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